# Re: \[RFC/PATCH\] shortstatus v1

- From: Nanako Shiraishi \<hidden\>
- Date: 2016-06-15 22:46:08 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/06/7397751
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/06/7397748/t.md

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Quoting Ulrik Sverdrup [ref]:

>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Junio C Hamano [ref] wrote:
>> > Jeff King [ref] writes:
>> > How is it different from "git stash create"?
>>
>> Git stash doesn't touch untracked files, whereas git snapshot would.
>> Take another closer look at the table in the original post titled
>> "What are the differences between 'git stash' and 'git snapshot'?"
>>
>> -Geoffrey Lee
>
> I'm understanding this just as I read this, but it seems that implementing a
> git snapshot (I'm myself interested), could be done quickly with a new git.
> (When was git stash create introduced? I don't know it?)

I did the initial git-stash at the end of June 2007; git-stash create was done by Junio about a week later and was released as a part of v1.5.4.

> Something like this:
> cp .git/index .git/tmp-index
> GIT_INDEX_FILE=.git/tmp-index
> git add -N .
> git stash create
>
> So we use add -N to put all files into tracked but unstaged by default, but we
> keep our old index. Now stash is ready to save off the working directory, and
> further logic has to be applied on the returned commit to save it off..

git-add -N came much later, late August 2008, and is available only in v1.6.1 and later.

I think you want to export GIT_INDEX_FILE you set to the temporary file before running these two commands.

-- 
Nanako Shiraishi
http://ivory.ap.teacup.com/nanako3/
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